HOT TOPICS :

Five Special Sessions to Approach the Scientific, Pharmaceutical, Nutritional and Natural Ingredients aspects in the fight against obesity

 

Two Special Round Tables

Round Table Discussion with the participation of multinationals food companies
  • What are the policies, strategies and initiatives of big food industries to fight against obesity?
  • What is the future of nutritional or natural ingredient supplemented food in the prevention of obesity?
  • What is the efficiency of these new products?
  • Which are the current and future products on the obesity market?
Discussion and Conclusion
  • What are the Perspectives for Anti-Obesity Therapies?
  • What Criteria Should have the Ideal Molecule and the Ideal Strategy to Treat and/or Prevent Obesity?

 

Three special oral presentation sessions selected upon abstract submission: for scientists, pharmaceutical laboratories, veterinarian health companies, food supplement companies and start-ups

  • What are the new scientific insights in the obesity field?
  • What are the potential new targets and useful pathways for new therapies against obesity?
  • What are the latest innovations in the natural ingredients and natural products field to fight or prevent obesity?

 

THEMATIC AREAS :

  • Economic Impact of Anti-Obesity Drugs
  • An Overview on Obesity
  • Childhood Obesity: first step of a future epidemic?
  • Obesity in animals
  • What are the role of circadian clock and stress factors in the management of Obesity ?
  • Current Pharmacotherapies and New Drugs in Developpment
  • Targeting the Energy Intake and Expenditure Balance
  • Targeting the Lipid and Carbohydrate Metabolism
  • Bariatric surgery
  • Dietary Calcium Intake, Dairy Products and Obesity: Overview and Perspectives
  • Sugar and Obesity: Friends or Foes?
  • Latest Advances, Clinical Studies and Scientific Credibility of Ingredient Supplemented Food in the Fight Against Obesity. (Examples of
  • supplements: fibers, vegetal sterols, CLA, cinnamon, chromium and fenugreek) Interesting Molecular Targets: the Peroxisome Proliferator
  • Activated Receptors (PPARs)
  • New Targets Rising from RNAi
  • Inflammation and Obesity: a New Field for Therapy?
  • Role of Mitochondria and Uncoupling Proteins in Obesity and Insulin Resistance
  • Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA): Overview and Latest Advances
  • Potential Use of Natural Antioxidants in the Treatment of Obesity
  • Dietary Supplements and Body-Weight Reduction
  • Point of View of an Industrialist in the Natural Ingredient Field: What are the Perspectives and the Latest developments for the Market of
  • Natural Appetite Suppressants
  • Point of View of a Medical Doctor: What is the Efficiency of Natural Ingredients Against Obesity